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“ ntsawdts kd-wdpahk msihkahk ; ndtsipahdhkahk, ” itwdw awa k- 
dsdmitsdnisit, “ dkutah kit-dyasowdtdyahkuk dki aylsiyiniwak, ” itdw unma ; 
“ usdm namuya kwayask wiy-ispayiw, aylsiyiniwak ta-7iihtawikiwak otah 
asklhkf — ta~^kawisianidwdyahkuk dm dskiy, ” itdw u^ma. 
“ aha' , ” itik. 
dkwah nlsiwak, dh-wdpaniyik, dh-ndtsipahdtsik. hd, ndtd mustuswah 
u^hdwak ; klwdhtahdwak mistahi miht&dt, tsikawdsis dkwah d-plhtukd- 
payiyit. awa pihdw mdsiakayitdsah kikiidsdw ; awa paspaskiw mdstakay-- 
itdsah kikiidsdw. dkwah muhydpitasdkdwak. mistahi miyusiwak. nlsukd- 
pawiwak, d~mdstsihdtsik dhi mustuswah. diiht aylsiyiniwak dh-mdkwd~ 
wiyinihtdkdwiht, pd-ntaw-asaindwak mlnsdpuy. 
“ hdw, aylsiyinltik, ntsawdts kiyawdw nandtuhk kik-dtdwiwindwdw. 
tahtuh pisiskiw k-dhtasit, nandtuhk kik-dsi-pimdtsihundwdw. kahkiyaw 
aylsiyiniw kika-sdkdtsihikuwdw, uhpikitsih did nlkdn. dkwah niyah dtdh 
tawdyihk nik-dijdn, kd-7iistitsik atsahkusak. kdkikd nika-pimdtisin. dkwah 
awa ni^m, dtdh ta-nlsiwak atsahkusak, kdkikd ta-pimdtisit nisim. usdm 
wiyasiwdw kdhtdwiyinaw ta-^kawiyahk, asHhk kit-dhpikihitut aylsiyiniw. ” 
dkuyikuhk dskwdk dtaydhkdwin. 
Once upon a time in a big town where people dwelt, a certain chief 
had a beautiful daughter. All moved camp. Only one tipi was left stand- 
ing, where an old man was abandoned, together with the old woman, 
his wife. And they had two girls. On the deserted camp-site they dwelt 
who had been abandoned. In the morning those girls walked about, 
taking up bones, which they boiled. Picking up things from the deserted 
camp and making soup of them was the only way they got anything to eat. 
Then at one time some boys, from over a hill, from the north, a boy 
came into sight, and another one, also a boy, from the west, and they 
carried throwing-sticks in their hands, and walked to a rise in the land. 
When one of them, the second one, threw a throwing-stick up the hill, 
and it sped through the air, the one of whom first I spoke, saw it. Again 
he threw a dart, and it, too, flew through the air. The boy of whom I 
spoke first went up the hill to fetch his dart. 
“Yoho! So here he is! To be sure, ‘He is going off to take a wife,' 
was said of you!” said he who had come from the west. 
“Oh no! I daresay it is you, really, who mean to take a wife!” said he 
who came from the north. 
But, “You were going off to take a wife!” he told him. 
Then they descended the hill and went to the deserted camp-site. 
One was not white. He who had come from the north was white; he was 
bashful; this one did not speak much. But the other one was silly and 
talked too much and was a babbler. 
“Now then, right here let us play throwing-stick!” said the talkative 
one. 
They continued to play there. 
Presently those children, those girls, heard the noise which the lads 
were making there. 
“Oh, father, surely those two children who are playing with throwing- 
sticks have been abandoned here. Surely they have been abandoned, 
just as we have!” 
